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Sea Nomads of Southeast Asia - From the Past to the Present (Paperback) Loot Price: R790
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Sea Nomads of Southeast Asia - From the Past to the Present (Paperback): Berenice Bellina, Roger Blench, Jean-Christophe...

Sea Nomads of Southeast Asia - From the Past to the Present (Paperback)

Berenice Bellina, Roger Blench, Jean-Christophe Galipaud

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Sea nomads have been part of the economic and political landscape of Southeast Asia for millennia. They have played many roles over the longue-durEe: in certain periods proving central to the ability of land-based polities to generate wealth, by sourcing valuable maritime commodities, facilitating trade, forming a naval force to secure and protect vital sea lanes and providing crucial connectivity. They have existed in complex, codified relations with different sedentary populations, as pirates, guardians of the sea-lanes, merchants and explorers. Paradoxically, as modern states emerged, the sea-nomads became progressively marginalized and impoverished. For many years, the sea nomads were assumed to be without history, and even without archaeology. This has proven far from the case, and recent archaeological findings allow us to more closely describe sea nomadism from the Pleistocene through the early Holocene up to the present. Integrating these findings with the latest in historical research, linguistics, ethnography and historical genetics allows us to better understand sea-nomad ways of life over a scale of millennia and to appreciate the diversity and flexibility of this sea-nomad world. This in turn enriches our understanding of nomadism and mobility as ways of life more generally, and of the sea not only as a landscape of resources, but as a home and spiritual landscape.

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Imprint: NUS Press
Country of origin: Singapore
Release date: August 2021
Editors: Berenice Bellina • Roger Blench • Jean-Christophe Galipaud
Dimensions: 229 x 152 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 448
ISBN-13: 978-981-3251-25-0
Categories: Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Maritime history
Books > History > History of specific subjects > Maritime history
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LSN: 981-3251-25-5
Barcode: 9789813251250

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